How Work Works • James Lewis • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOaar James Lewis - Principal Consultant & Technical Director at Thoughtworks @thoughtworks RESOURCES ABSTRACT Have you ever thought about why what we see as the sensible defaults for software engineering in 2023 work? We adopt the key metrics from Accelerate, team structures from Team Topologies and Microservices in an effort to improve the flow of value to our users (or to a customer saying Thank You, paraphrasing Daniel Terhorst-North). But what is Value? What is Flow? James will use ideas from Information Theory and Complexity Science to peek into the domain model of our everyday experiences turning ideas into running software. Come along and explore the weird world of how work works. Warning, may cause you to reduce batch sizes, because maths. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:45 Programming in the past 10 years 08:51 What does good look like? 18:05 A brief interlude involving turtles 39:44 Another interlude 46:52 How work works 51:55 Outro Read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • Sam Newman • Building Microservices • Ford, Parsons, Kua & Sadalage • Building Evolutionary Architectures 2nd Edition • Donald G. Reinertsen • The Principles of Product Development Flow • David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • Michael Jackson • Software Requirements and Specifications • Geoffrey West • Scale • #Complexity #ComplexityScience #SoftwareEngineering #JamesLewis #Programming #ProgrammingAnarchy #Tech #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareTechnology #SoftwareCycles #ProgrammingCycles #DesignPatterns #TeamTopologies #SoftwareArchitecture #Microservices #Scale #Thoughtworks #ScaleDown #SelfSimilarity #SelfOrganization #Emergence #CorporateMetabolism Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.